Rudy Giuliani Loses Bid to Dismiss $148 Million Georgia Defamation Judgment

A federal judge upheld a jury decision from December that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani must pay $148 million in damages to two Georgia election workers he was found to have defamed after the 2020 election. Mr. Giuliani filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2023, a day after receiving the order. The former mayor’s attorneys attempted to get the ruling reversed in February, arguing that some statements about emotional harm were time-barred, lacked evidence, and that some testimony should have been disregarded. Judge Beryl A. Howell for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in her opinion that Mr. Giuliani’s arguments attempting to overturn the ruling fell “well short of establishing that the evidence presented of plaintiffs’ emotional distress damages, including each plaintiff’s testimony, was legally or factually flawed to meet the demanding standard … for a new trial.”...